Science Art: Ribbon schematic of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase
Jane Richardson drew this by hand and then colored it in back in 1981. It’s a protein molecule, or a diagram of how things move […]
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Making batteries out of concrete.
As in the building material. MIT News reports on researchers who have gotten 10 times the power out of a reformulated battery that’s made from […]
Science Art: Yellow and blue, old and new, 2025
This is a photo from 10 days ago of stars millions of light-years away (so the picture is of things long, long before October 3). […]
Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China
PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up […]
Science Art: Instrumento de Geographia y Cosmographia, 1606
This is a tool from Theatro del Mvndo y de el Tiempo, a book of star maps by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Miguel Perez, and Sebastian […]
Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles
Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous […]
Musicians don’t feel pain like other people.
Is it worse? No, according to Science Alert. They’re sharing research that shows musical training actually increases tolerance for pain: Research has also found that […]
Science Art: One Osprey Mouth at a Time II, by Phil’s 1stPix
Here’s a photo from the Encyclopedia of Life collection on Flickr, showing a family of the old bone-breakers, the fish-hawks, ospreys. They are a noble […]
Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942
This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns […]
Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.
Time (not a science magazine, but…) has a story on the Metaculus forecasting cup (not a scientific experiment, but…), which offers a $5,000 prize to […]
Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, […]
Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.
ScienceAlert reports on a brain-scan study that finds the loss of smell — apparently triggered by a misfiring immune response in the brain — may […]
Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.
IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There […]
Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.
News Atlas reports on an industrial-scale sand battery that is replacing a woodchip-fired power plant in Pornainen, Finland, with clean heat and energy: It’s set […]
Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.
PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out […]